Utagawa Kunisada
Woman Putting Out a Light
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Japanese art
Abalone Divers off the Coast of Ise
Three moments of an abalone harvest unfold along the Ise coast, from the first plunge to the catch handed up to a smiling boat crew.
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About this artwork
Utagawa Kunisada made this colour woodblock print in the early 1830s, during the Edo period. It belongs to a series of landscape prints produced in the early Tenpō era. The scene is set off the coast of Ise, where women divers known as ama traditionally gathered shellfish. Abalone were prized for their edible flesh and for their iridescent inner shell, a source of mother-of-pearl. Kunisada shows three stages of the work: one diver plunging into the sea, another holding her breath as she prises an abalone from the rocks with a blade, and a third passing her catch to the beaming fishermen waiting on the boat.
On your wall: A seascape with a human story suits a living room, study or hallway, and sits well alongside calm, natural interiors or other Japanese-inspired pieces.
- Title
- Abalone Divers off the Coast of Ise
- Artist
- Utagawa Kunisada
- Style
- Japanese art
- Shape
- Landscape
Public domain (CC0). Image courtesy of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Text based on Cleveland Museum of Art (CC0).
About Utagawa Kunisada
Utagawa Kunisada, also known as Utagawa Toyokuni III, was a Japanese ukiyo-e artist who designed woodblock prints in nineteenth-century Japan. He was among the most popular and prolific print designers of his age, and one of the most commercially successful. In his own lifetime, his reputation was greater than that of contemporaries such as Hokusai, Hiroshige and Kuniyoshi.
Based on Wikipedia.
Canvas and printing
Printed on canvas and stretched over a 2 cm FSC-certified wooden frame, with the image wrapping around the edges. Framed versions sit in a wooden floater frame in black, natural or dark wood.
Delivery and returns
Every canvas is printed to order by our partner in Germany: framed canvases arrive in 6–11 working days, unframed ones in 7–12 working days. Delivery is free in Switzerland on orders from CHF 99. We also deliver to the USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Singapore and many more countries, printed close to you where possible. You can return an undamaged canvas within 14 days. See delivery and returns.
